Alfredo Beltran Leyva

Alfredo "El Mochomo" Beltran Leyva (21 January 1971-) was a leader of the Beltran Leyva Cartel during the 1990s and 2000s. In 2008, he was captured by the Mexican Army in Culiacan, Sinaloa, and he was extradited to the United States in 2014, being sentenced to life in prison in 2017.

Biography
Alfredo Beltran Leyva was born in Badiraguato, Sinaloa, Mexico on 21 January 1971, the brother of Hector, Carlos, and Arturo Beltran Leyva. The brothers founded the Beltran Leyva Cartel and worked closely with El Chapo, the boss of the Sinaloa Cartel. Starting in the 1990s, the Beltran Leyva brothers trafficked narcotics into the United States, dominating drug trafficking operations in western Mexico. From the 1990s to 2014, Alfredo Beltran Leyva managed multi-ton shipments of cocaine and methamphetamine as they travelled from South America to Mexico by air, land, or water. In 2008, the Beltran Leyva Cartel would break away from the Sinaloa Cartel after Alfredo was arrested in Culiacan, Sinaloa, blaming El Chapo for Alfredo's arrest. The spokesman of his arrest, Edgar Eusebio Millan Gomez, was killed in retaliation for Beltran Leyva's capture. In 2014, he was extradited to the United States, and he was sentenced to life in prison in April 2017, as well as being forced to forfeit $529 million to the US government.